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Plumose, bearing a resemblance to feathers ; 
feathery. 
Plumule, the ascending shoot of a seedling. 
Pod, a kind of seed-vessel similar to that of the 
common pea. : 
Pollen, farina, or dust, contained within the cells 
of the anthers when perfect; it is essential to 
fructification. ' 
Polyandrous, having more than 20 stamens in- 
serted in the receptacle. 
Polygamous, producing male, female, and her- 
maphrodite flowers on the same plants. 
Polypetatous, having many petals. 
Pome, a fruit composed of the fleshy tubular part 
of the calyx, and crowned by the persistent 
limb. 
Pouch, a small bag, or sac, at the base of some 
petals and sepals. i 
Prickle, a rigid opaque process terminating in 
an acute point, unconnected with the woody 
fibre. 
Procumbent, prostrate. 
Pubcrulous, clothed with spreading down. 
Pubescent, covered with short soft hairs. 
Punctured, dotted. 
Putamen, a nut of many cells. 
Pyramidal, formed like a pyramid. : 
Pyreng, a kind of fruit, synonymous with the 
term Pome. 
Pyriform, shaped like a pear. 
Q. 
Quadrangular, having four angles. 
Quadrifarious, arranged in four rows ; or ranks, 
Quadrifid, four-parted ; divided into four parts. 
Quinquejid, five-parted ; divided into five parts. 
R. 
Raceme, a mode of inflorescence in which the 
flowers are arranged around a simple filiform 
axis, each particular flower on its own proper 
footstalk. 
Racemule, a small raceme. 
Rachis, the common footstalk of spikes or panicles 
of flowers, and of compound leaves; the axis of 
the cone of the silver fir and the cedar. 
Radiant, divided like the rays of a star. 
Radicle, the root of an embryo. 
Ramentaceous, having small loose scales upon the 
stem. 
Ramose, branched. 
Raphe, in seeds, the channel of vessels which con- 
nects the cnalaza at one end of the seed-vessel 
with the hilum at the other. 
Receptacle, that part of the fructification which 
supports the other parts. 
Recurved, curved backwards. 
Reflexed, bent backwards, 
Regma, a kind of seed-vessel, three or more celled, 
few-seeded, superior, dry, the cells bursting 
from the axis with elasticity into two valves. 
Reniform, kidney-shaped. 
Repand, when the margin of a leaf has a wavy 
undulated appearance, the leaf is said to be 
repand. 
Replicate, folded back. 
Reticulated, net-like, usually applied to the veins 
or nerves. 
Retuse, ending in a broad shallow notch, appear- 
ing as if bitten off at the end. 
Revolute, rolled back. 
Rhombic, ee figure approaching to a diamond. 
Rhomboia, shape. 
Rigid, stiff. 
Ringent, gaping. 
Rotate, Wheel shaped : a monopetalous corolla, 
having a very short tube and a flat limb, is 
called rotate. 
Rufescent, somewhat rusty. 
Rugose, rough, or coarsely wrinkled. 
Runcinate, cut into several transverse acute seg- 
ments which point backwards. 
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Sagittate, arrow-shaped, shaped like the head of 
an arrow. 
Salver-shaped, applied to the calyx or corolla 
when the tube is long and slender, and the 
limb flat. 
Samara, a kind of winged seed-vessel containing 
one or more seeds, surrounded, or partially 
surrounded, by a thin transparent membrane. 
Samarideous, bearing samare. ‘ 
Sarmentose, producing trailing stems which root 
at every joint. md 
Scabrous, rough from little asperities. 
Scale, a term usually applied to the bractee of 
the amentum or catkin ; also bractez of cones. 
Scale formed, having the form of scales. 
Scaly, having scales. 
Scandent, climbing. 
Scape; a stem rising immediately from the root, 
bearing flowers only, or, at most, flowers and a 
few bractex. 
Scarvous, dry and membranous. 
Scobiform, formed of a very thin, hollow, mem- 
branous aril, containing a globular free seed in 
its cavity. 
Secund, arranged on one side only. 
Semi, half. 
Seminiferous, seed-bearing. 
Sepuloid, resembling sepals. 
Sepals, divisions of the calyx. 
Septicidal, dividing at the dissepiments to admit 
the escape of seeds. 
Septiferous, having septa or partitions. 
Serrate, like the teeth of a saw. 
Serrulate, finely notched, like the teeth of a very 
fine saw. 
Sessile, without stalks. 
Seta, a bristle; a strong, stiff, roundish hair. 
Setaceous, resembling a bristle in form. 
Setigerous, bearing bristles. 
Setose, bristly ; clothed with bristles. 
Sheath, the lower part of a leaf or petiole which 
surrounds the stem. 
Shield, a broad table-like process in some flowers, 
also the seed-vessel in lichens. 
Silicle, a kind of pod, short and round, with two 
valves, and having its seeds attached to both 
sutures. 
Silique, a long and narrow dry seed-vessel with 
two valves, the seeds of which are alternately 
fixed to both sutures. 
Sinuated, cut into scollops. 
Sinus, a notch or cavity, 
Sorosts, a spike or raceme converted into a fleshy 
fruit by the cohesion, in a single mass, of the 
ovaria and floral envelopes. 
Spathaceous, having a spathe ; spathe-like. 
Spathulate, shaped like a spatula. 
Sphacelate, withered, but not decayed. 
Spicate, having an inflorescence in which the 
flowers are sessile, or nearly so, upon one long 
common footstalk, or rachis. 
Spine, a thorn which proceeds from the wood, 
not from the bark only. 
Spinescent, furnished with spine-like processes. 
Spinule, a small spine. 
Spurred, having horn-like processes, produced 
by various parts of a flower. 
Squarrose, ragged ; scurfy. 
Stamen, the male organ of a flower. 
Staminodia, scales at the base of the petals in 
some flowers, as in those of some species of 
lime. 
Standard, the upper petal in papilionaceous 
flowers. 
Stellate, radiating in a star-like manner. 
Stem-clasping, the petiole of a leaf which is 
dilated so as to enfold the stem with its base 
is said to be stem-clasping. 
pe, the stalk of the germen or ovary within 
the corolla and calyx; the trunk of a tree- 
fern, &c. 
Stipitate, furnished with a stipe. 
a ea a small leaf or membrane at the base of 
the petiole. 
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